Wendi Deng Murdoch Biography
Wendi Deng Murdoch is an American entrepreneur, investor, film producer, and collector of Chinese modern art who was born in China.
How old is Wendi Deng Murdoch? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 5 December 2022. She was born in 1968 in Jinan, China. Her real name is Wendi Deng Murdoch.
Wendi Deng Murdoch Family – Education
Wenge means “Cultural Revolution” and Deng is the family name. Her parents were both engineers, and she has two older sisters and a brother. She changed her given name to “Wendi” as an adolescent.
She went to Xuzhou First Secondary School (also known as Xuzhou No.1 Middle School). She developed into a competitive volleyball player. Her father moved to Guangzhou while she was in high school to work as a factory director at the People’s Machinery Works; she and her family remained in Xuzhou till they joined their father a short time later.
She dropped out of medical school in 1988 and moved to the United States on a study permit. She enrolled at California State University, Northridge, where she studied economics and graduated with honors. She graduated from California State University, Northridge, with a BA in Economics and an MBA from Yale University.
Wendi Deng Murdoch Husband
During Deng’s studies in the United States, Jake and Joyce Cherry hosted her at their home. Jake Cherry later divorced his wife and married Wendi Deng in 1990. Wendi received a green card while married to Cherry. They divorced after 2 years and 7 months of marriage. Jake later stated that they only dated for four to five months until he discovered Deng was seeing David Wolf, a man her age.
She met Rupert Murdoch, 37 years her senior, in 1997 while working as an executive at Murdoch-owned Star TV in Hong Kong. They married on his boat Morning Glory in 1999, less than three weeks after his divorce from his second wife, Anna Murdoch. Grace (born in 2001) and Chloe (born in 2003) were the couple’s two children. Grace Murdoch’s godfather is Tony Blair.
Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in June 2013, citing irreconcilable differences. The Daily Telegraph and Vanity Fair reported in February 2014 that Wendi Murdoch had an affair with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. According to an article in The Economist, Rupert Murdoch severed his long-standing relationship with Blair in 2014 because he suspected Blair of having an affair with his wife. Murdoch and her two daughters live in New York City.
Wendi Deng Murdoch Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $100 Million.
Wendi Deng Murdoch MySpace
Prior to the company’s sale to Specific Media in June 2011, Murdoch served as an advisor to MySpace’s China operation.
Wendi Deng Murdoch Artsy
Murdoch co-founded the online platform Artsy with Carter Cleveland and Dasha Zhukova in 2009, and it has since become one of the most popular online destinations for buying, viewing, and learning about art. Peter Thiel, François Pinault, and Eric Schmidt are among the other investors.
Wendi Deng Murdoch Netflix
She also produced the Netflix documentary Sky Ladder, directed by Academy Award winner Kevin MacDonald and featuring the work of Cai Guo-Qiang. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016. Before the film’s Netflix launch, Sotheby’s sponsored a private celebration and screening in October 2016.
Wendi Deng Murdoch Career
Deng met Bruce Churchill shortly after graduating from Yale in 1996. Churchill managed finance and corporate development at the Fox TV department in Los Angeles at the time. He gave Deng an internship at News Corp’s Hong Kong subsidiary Star TV, which turned into a full-time junior executive role.
Despite being a junior employee, she assisted in the planning of Star TV’s operations in Hong Kong and China, as well as in the expansion of Chinese distribution for Star’s Channel V music channel. Within a year, she was promoted to vice president. She also looked into interactive TV prospects for News Digital Systems.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a film about two footbound children in Qing era China directed by Wayne Wang, was Murdoch’s first co-production with Florence Sloan in 2011. At the Chinese American Film Festival, the film received the Golden Angel Award. Murdoch has invested in a number of technology start-ups, including Oscar, Snapchat, Uber, and Warby Parker.